Cindy I phoned both the Edinburgh room and the Scottish room at Edinburgh city libraries and they said they did not think they had anything with a list of names. A friend has told me that the caretaker in the men's toilets at the library is very knowledgeable on the subject of the Forth Bridge but that line of enquiry is closed to me! if you look at the National Register of Archives website you will see that Forth Railway Company minutes are held at the National Archives in Edinburgh. So I phoned them to see if they knew if the names were mentioned and this is what they told me: 1) yes, names might be mentioned in the company minutes but they are more likely to refer to people who died operating the railway. The construction of the bridge would have been contracted out. 2) the man at the NAS agreed with the information in Stuart Laing's message in that the number of 57 probably comes from numbers arriving at 'the Edinburgh Hospital' . This most probably refers to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary but there are other hospitals which are closer to the site. The Infirmary records go 'way back' but dont hold a lot of patient information. They are in the Lothian Health Services archive which is held by the University of Edinburgh Library. (which has an online catalogue) 3) before 1895 there were no fatal accident enquiries in Scotland. There might have been a procurator fiscal's enquiry but those records were not retained. The names MAY be recorded in Board of Trade reports which are held at the Public Record Office at Kew. (again, there is an online index-but to documents, generally not to the names included). These records are brief - more than just Joe Bloggs Edinburgh aged 35, but not much more. My informant seemed to think these records were the best bet. I suppose there is a chance that the names might have been listed in a newspaper article at the time of the Bridge opening. There might be a memorial somewhere but I don't know of one. The Victorians were rather pragmatic/heartless/fatalistic about industrial injury. I wonder whether the answer is to hire a researcher to go through the death certificates for the period looking for male deaths which fit what you know? Judy >